Andrew Niccol Quotes
You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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What I do is I do my job.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.
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My thing was play as hard as you can, don't be stupid, pay attention to details, and have enough guts in the clutch that you're not afraid to make a play. Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.
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I just want to work with the big people and the people who make great music.
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What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
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You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
